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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
You had it in your first paragraph, and then you half talked yourself out of it in your second. And then the back half of THAT paragraph, you almost talked yourself back into it.
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There is always a dance between us dictating where the offense wants to go and also taking what the defense gives us. The defense wants to take something away, we’ll target something else. If that something else don’t stick, then we get stuck. The hope is at some point there are too many things to focus on that the offense can pick their poison.
And we haven’t been there yet consistently which is why we’ve had our share of struggles past the initial script. I don’t think we drew up plays for Justin Watson but the eagles funneled plays to him by taking everything else away. Against the raiders on the other hand the chiefs were very intentionally funneling plays to the big 3. And the raiders didn’t adapt much so we kept attacking with that formula.
Did we unlock something by finding new ways to get Pacheco and rice involved in the passing game that allows us now to pick our poison? I don’t know but I hope so. I also imagine most other teams will go back to bracketing kelce, keeping everything in front of them versus the run and with physical man coverage. Things Vegas didn’t really emphasize. So we will see where that takes us.